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A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...
Conservation work by an archaeologist has revealed a previously unknown portrait of the last emperor of Byzantine, ...
The newly discovered portrait, the only contemporary of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos XI. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Greece . Based on stylistic criteria, the work can be ...
His cousin Manuel, the youngest of the emperor’s offspring, with whom he had been raised, paid his ransom. Shortly thereafter, three of Manuel’s brothers died from an illness, leaving only two: Isaac ...